• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• The importance of what we don’t (and can’t) say

• What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

• Žižek on asexuality

• Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

• The terrifying horizon of (digitalised) social order

• Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

• The monthly Digital Sociology discussion group

• What is a stereotype?

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• Is capitalism too big to fail?

• What is ‘modernising zeal’?

• Call for Papers: Digital Technology, Lockdown and the Post-Pandemic University

• Social media governance within higher education

• “The more closely you look at a word, the more distantly it stares back at you”

• Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Neoliberalism and its dependence upon oil

• Why I’m so fascinated by education

• The potential virtues of online education during Covid-19

• Theoretical interventions as events

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• Situating digital education in the longue durée of educational restructuring

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

• In defence of lurid curiosity about the lives of the rich and powerful

• I don’t mind if I’m with you

• Ulrich Beck’s bleak vision of a future Europe battling against immigration

• Beck on two forms of social integration

• And why the hell, if there are real enemies, shouldn’t I be allowed to insult them?

• Being an intellectual outside the academy: the sociology of branding strategies

• Keeping our intellectual communities going during lockdown: a show and tell workshop

• The private symposia of the rich and powerful

• The disruption of routines and new consumer behaviours

• there are no new beginnings until everybody sees that the old ways need to end

• Running an online conference

• Zuckerberg on the three types of video chat

• The internet and the return of multimodal literacy

• The patterns of life that modernity engenders can only be practiced by a small minority of the world’s population

• The rich have much to lose, the poor do not

• The uncanny remembrance of the non-human

• The materiality of resources and the social forms they give rise to

• “A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come”

• The sociology of civilisational collapse

• Now we’re apart. Though not through choice. Do we stay mute? Or raise our voice?

• Could science fiction be a research method?

• The downward mobility of intellectuals

• Ian McEwan on the mundane reality of reflexivity

• The agricultural origins of pandemics

• The irreducibility of hope

• What is ‘post-truth’?

• The Isolation Pod: Theorising in/of Covid-19

• The geopolitics of Big Tech and the Covid crisis